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Database Programming with PL/SQL

15-4: Hiding Your Source Code
Practice Activities
Vocabulary
Directions: Identify the vocabulary word for each definition below.

is the process of turning code into source or machine code

to make it difficult to understand.

procedure for obfuscating a single PL/SQL unit which both

wraps the text and creates the PL/SQL unit.

processes an input SQL file and obfuscates only the

PL/SQL units in the file.

is the process of hiding the PL/SQL source code using the

wrap utility or DBMS_DDL subprograms.

Try It / Solve It
1. List two benefits of obfuscating your PL/SQL subprogram source code.

2. Wrap the following procedure in PL/SQL. Verify that it has been wrapped.

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE sample_proc

IS BEGIN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ('Source code is hidden.');
END sample_proc;

3. What are the exact steps to obfuscate the procedure body contained in the file proc1.sql?

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